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Today, Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi.
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I have an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal entitled "This Other Deal With Iran Is Obsolete" in which I argue that the current discussions between the US and Iran to reach a permanent agreement regard...
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Remember Mali? We don't hear much about it these days, but it still suffers from the presence of armed groups of Islamist extremists in the north, and the French military is still there and using force ...
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On the anniversary of the January 25 uprisings, television screens across Egypt broadcast dance performances on the stage in Tahrir square, smiling children with Egyptian flags painted on their faces, an...
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In the last ten days, an interesting controversy has bubbled up over congressional control of the drone program. The quarrel, which has been both internal to the Senate and between the Congress and the ...
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I met Matthew Atkins, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force, recently at the Hoover Institution, where he is currently a military fellow. Lt. Col. Atkins has worked in targeting and intelligence a fair b...
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Examples of religious strife are numerous in the Middle East and elsewhere. Yet more frequently, religious communities have lived side-by-side, if not always arm-in-arm. In the Middle East today, howev...
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Naz Modirzadeh (Senior Fellow at the Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Engagement Project) has a paper in the latest issue of the Harvard National Security Journal that (i) posits the existence of distin...
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Last week PBS 'Frontline' released a short documentary on life under the Kim Jong Un regime (trailer below). Using illegal footage provided by an undercover network of journalists and North Koreans as a ...
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It's been a busy day in cyber-related news. The last entry (for now) is the announcement in Davos of the creation of a Global Commission on Internet Governance. As readers of this blog know, I think th...
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The estimable Gregory Johnsen has a lengthy article in Buzzfeed about the history of the AUMF. Entitled "60 Words and War Without End: The Untold Story of the Most Dangerous Sentence in U.S. History," th...
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Today is the fifth anniversary of President Obama’s executive order directing the closure of Guantanamo within one year.
I welcomed the President’s order at the time, but I commented on NPR and elsewher...